Milestone documents in African American history
Subtitle: exploring the essential primary sources
By: Paul Finkelman, editor in chief
Series: Milestone documents; Milestone documents
Publisher: Schlager Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dallas, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781935306054; 9781935306115; 9781935306122; 9781935306139; 9781935306146
Subjects: Sources; African Americans; History
Description: Among the documents included in the set are important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions from Dred Scott v. Sandford to Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education; and iconic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, and Barack Obama. Key congressional reports, executive orders, and letters help round out our coverage, providing an invaluable collection of primary documents that is paired with extensive original commentary that helps students understand the documents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 1619-1852; title: v. 2. 1853-1900; title: v. 3. 1901-1964; title: v. 4. 1965-2009.